badass tattoos part 13
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the blues brothers (1980)
on the fingers of their hands they have their first names tattooed. tattoos they’d get in the joint.
it’s the fucking blues brothers. if you don’t think they’re badass then fuck you.
“No I didn’t. Honest… I ran out of gas. I, I had a flat tire. I didn’t have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn’t come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts. IT WASN’T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD.”
or
Elwood: “It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses.”
Jake: “Hit it.”
or
“We’re on a mission from god.”
badass tattoos part 12
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synecdoche new york
of course it’s a charlie kaufman film, how could it not be?
the movie came out last year.
it’s about a playwright writhing in his fucked up life. so i won’t go into it.
the tattoo however appears on his 11-year-old daughter. she lives in berlin with her mother and her mom’s friend used her as a protege. he found out when he picked up a lifestyle magazine. he made a dash to berlin and they wouldn’t let her see him. the mom told the daughter he in fact ditched them for his homosexual partner eric, which isn’t true but it might be due to the non-linear storytelling. even he’s not really sure, but we never see a gay lover anyway.
he sees her again. this time she’s much older, and dances in a glass box for men to watch and masturbate to. he pounds away at the box trying to get her attention. it’s sad. it was to no avail as he got thrown out.
finally he gets a note that she is dying and in the hospital. the tattoos her lover/tattoo artist had given her got infected and started to wilt and die. hence the photo. living, breathing tattoo. badass.
“Dear diary, I’m afraid I’m gravely ill. It is perhaps times like these that one reflects on things past. An article of clothing from when I was young. A green jacket. I walk with my father. A game we once played. Pretend we’re faeries. I’m a girl faerie. My name is Laura Lee. And you’re a boy faerie. Your name is Tita Lee. Pretend, when we’re faeries we fight each other, and I say ‘Stop hitting me I’ll die!’ And you hit me again and I say, ‘Now I have to die.’ And then you say, ‘But I’ll miss you.’ And I say, ‘But I have to. And you’ll have to wait a million years to see me again. And I’ll be put in a box, and all I’ll need is a tiny glass of water and lots of tiny pieces of pizza and the box will have wings like an airplane.’ And you’ll ask, ‘Where will it take you?’ ‘Home.’ I say.”
i’ll need rupees
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stefania seccia
artist, someone in india
Indian Elephant
i booked my flight and got a hell of a deal. i’ll be landing in mumbai, make my way down to cristina who is two hours outside of chennai and with a little luck i’ll be taking rad pictures along the way. and visiting an old friend, shakun.
i also want a tattoo. big surprise, right?
over my right ear, or nestling just beside it i want an elephant. something detailed, something meaningful.
i’ve always wanted some kind of elephant tattoo. but i don’t want anything big. if i don’t choose an elephant, i might get something else inspired by the country. limitless choice, really.
i’ve been planning this trip to india for about four years, but dreaming about india since i was a little kid. i’ll be equipped with my very sacred turtle bracelet sam made for me, to ensure a safe journey.
i’m prepared for the insane heat, crime and spontaneity of such a country. but i can’t fucking wait.
meanwhile i’m just sitting here, watching the blues brothers. th-ink-in about it.
“So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.” Mark Twain
ink in progress is a new chapter we’re opening up on ink is ink is ink. it’s tattoos on the back burner waiting to get on you; maybe you’re saving up for it, maybe you just like the idea. let us know. here’s a chance to write about it.
badass tattoos part 11
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ninja scroll
this 1993 anime movie, which apparently is being made into a live action film produced by leonardo dicaprio, is about a ninja whose nemesis is a leader of a demon gang with crazy super powers.
the lady in the picture is a ninja on the bad side whose snake tattoos come to life and she uses them to poison people for a kill.
pretty badass.
“well, this ninja girl is very useful. you see she has the technique of poisoning the man she sleeps with… in fact, the man you thought you killed, was poisoned by her. anyone who makes love to her dies. so you see, she’s perfect in this amoral world.”
editor s.
badass tattoos part 10
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bad lieutenant
harvey keitel stars in this 1992 film as a cocaine-addicted police lieutenant who has ethereal hallucinations about god and other religious stuff of the same ilk. he’s a catholic. they’re all fuckin’ crazy. i was raised one.
apparently it’s so badass a friend of mine said it’s something you can only watch once, alone. it’s intensely badass.
“vampires are lucky, they can feed on others. we gotta eat away at ourselves. we gotta eat our legs to get the energy to walk. we gotta come, so we can go. we gotta suck ourselves off. we gotta eat away at ourselves till there’s nothing left but appetite. we give, and give and give crazy. cause a gift that makes sense ain’t worth it. jesus said seventy times seven. no one will ever understand why, why you did it. they’ll just forget about you tomorrow, but you gotta do it.”
editor s.
badass tattoos part 9
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escape from new york
snake = badass
snake is so badass his character is the basis for the snake in metal gear solid.
with a cobra on his stomach there is no stopping kurt russell’s character snake escape from a futuristic (1997) manhattan, new york. the film came out in 1981.
“tell this to the workers when they ask where their leader went. we, the soldiers of the national liberation front of america, in the name of the workers and all the oppressed of this imperialist country, have struck a fatal blow to the fascist police state. what better revolutionary example than to let their president perish in the inhuman dungeon of his own imperialist prison.”
editor s.
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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The original Swedish title of this book is “Men Who Hate Women.”
A middle-aged journalist who publishes a magazine is asked by a financial tycoon to trace his family’s history for him. In reality, he’s asked to solve a disappearance case in the rich guy’s family that occurred about 40 years ago.
Apparently the real main character is a punk chick who is victimized by authorities her whole life. She’s the one with the dragon ink.
The pair meet up and become unlikely detectives caught up in a village with a violent and creepy past (and present).
The book is part of a trilogy and is being adapted into films coming out in 2010, according to wikipedia.
“The fall of the Bear Gang gave him the star billing that launched him as a young journalist. The downside of his celebrity was that the other evening newspaper could not resist using the headline Kalle Blomkvist solves the case. The tongue-in-cheek story was written by an older female columnist and contained references to the young detective in Astrid Lindgren’s books for children. To make matters worse, the paper had run the story with a grainy photograph of Blomkvist with his mouth half open even as he raised an index finger to point.”
badass tattoos part 8
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cape fear
inked with jailhouse tattoos robert deniro plays a convicted rapist who serves a 14-year prison sentence because the cop who caught him played dirty.
i should just stop there, this is already so badass.
so when deniro’s character is released he goes on a raging rampage of rape, murder and creepy seduction and stalks the lawyer who originally defended him and the cop who helped put him away. pretty mean for 1991.
“i understand, i’m not your type, too many tattoos. thing is, there isn’t much to do in prison except desecrate your flesh.”
editor s.
badass tattoos part 7
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eastern promises
viggo mortensen, a poet, actor and artist, almost got into trouble from real russian racketeers when he walked around with these tattoos off set.
in 2007 mortensen plays a mole/gangster in the russian mafia settled in london, england.
a lot of rape, prostitution, crazy violence and awesome acting and accents.
pure badass.
“she is dead, but she had semyon’s baby. if you can prove baby was his, and girl was underage, that is statutory rape. you have baby, you need semyon’s dna. for poetic reasons, i suggest you take his blood.”
editor s.
badass tattoos part 6
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from dusk till dawn
come on, it had to be done. george clooney in tattoos? vampires being slayed? danny trejo full of angst?
seriously stop for a second. what isn’t badass about these tattoos?
1996 was fairly boring otherwise, i think. until this came out.
just check out that ink.
“well, it’s been one long, goddamn hot, miserable shit-ass fuckin’ day every inch of the way.”
or
“were they psycho?” – “psycho? no. psychos do not blow up when sunlight hits them, i don’t give a fuck how crazy they are!”
epic badass
editor s.
